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American Idol is really two shows. There's the American half, in which America turns up to petition Paula, Randy and Simon, that cruel trinity of fame gods. And there's the Idol half, which doesn't get going until March, in which the show hypes up its 12 finalists, the better to have a marketable product after one of them becomes champion. So why do the worst singers draw higher ratings than the best? You can thank in part microcelebrity William Hung, who tortured Ricky Martin's She Bangs during the third-season auditions and ended up with...
...Simon's Rock College of Bard Massachusetts...
...product is, from Vespa scooters to Lucky Strike cigarettes. But that doesn't work for governments. Just this month revelations that a group close to the Republican Party has been planting news stories in Iraqi newspapers, and allegedly paid off some prominent imams, caused an uproar in Washington. Simon Anholt, an international consultant based in Britain who advises governments on how to improve the brand image of their nations, thinks the answer lies in moving away from obsessing over polls and focus groups. "Most governments provide second-rate customer service rather than leadership," he says. "Governments are popular when they...
...Iraq war and prevent others like it, we can’t rely on a draft or some other measure to spread the sacrifice. We have to win over those millions of middle class families who supported this war with their votes, their money, and their lives. Samuel M. Simon ’05-’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...
...That’s pretty darn dubious if they weren’t playing music,” said Simon Stern, a Harvard Law School lecturer who has published work about the Fourth Amendment. “Still, if you have reason to think that a crime has been committed and you’ve narrowed it down to two places, a court would agree there was probable cause to search the rooms...